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We know you love Minecraft — we can’t keep our books about it on the shelf — so come play with us! Meet other Minecraft enthusiasts and work together in a shared world to build fantastic creations! Some accounts will be available for new players, but you’re encouraged to use your own if you have one. Recommended for ages 6-12.

Join Moira for our second building challenge of the summer. The list of supplies may be limited, but the possibilities are endless! What can you build? Recommended for ages 5-12.

Lois is back with more awesome art projects! Join her each Tuesday during the Summer Reading Program to explore your creative side with open-ended art projects based around building! Recommended for ages 5-12.

Join Lynne Knudsen for the first meeting of a new, ongoing guitar circle! Bring your string instrument, voice, or both. Lynne will be bringing sheet music to share, and invites others to bring their favorite music. This month, she’ll focus on international music to follow the Build a Better World theme.

Build a Better World is sponsored by the Emily Williston Memorial Library, the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

We know you love Minecraft — we can’t keep our books about it on the shelf — so come play with us! Meet other Minecraft enthusiasts and work together in a shared world to build fantastic creations! Some accounts will be available for new players, but you’re encouraged to use your own if you have one. Recommended for ages 6-12.

Lois is back with more awesome art projects! Join her each Tuesday during the Summer Reading Program to explore your creative side with open-ended art projects based around building! Recommended for ages 5-12.

Join Lynne Knudsen for Strings & Sings! Bring your string instrument, voice, or both. Lynne will be bringing sheet music to share, and invites others to bring their favorite music. No registration required.

Join Nancy Stenberg in discussing Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, by Debby Irving. Copies available to check out with a valid library card. Also available through CWMARS as an e-audiobook on the Commonwealth eBook, or as an e-audiobook on Hoopla with a BPL e-card. Read more about Irving and Waking Up White on her website.

Build a Better World is sponsored by the Emily Williston Memorial Library, the Massachusetts Library System, the Boston Bruins, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

The Boston Science Museum visits the Library for the first of TWO SESSIONS of this out-of-this-world workshop. Participants will create an air rocket that launches across the room, and engineer a way for a payload to return safely to Earth. This hands-on workshop explores the science behind rockets and space exploration. Use your imagination to plan, build, and test your own design. Recommended for ages 5-12.

The Boston Science Museum visits the Library for the second of TWO SESSIONS of this out-of-this-world workshop. Participants will create an air rocket that launches across the room, and engineer a way for a payload to return safely to Earth. This hands-on workshop explores the science behind rockets and space exploration. Use your imagination to plan, build, and test your own design. Recommended for ages 5-12.